Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the seismograph is sufficiently sensitive it is possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...
...ourselves off from the past and confine our efforts to the narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...
...Allied blockade is illegal in this or that particular. Shall we then simply lie back and say that all of the belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous man and a thief, because they both desire a neighbor's property...
...Black is, if you choose, only a very dark gray, and white a very light one. But it remains important, none the less, to distinguish between black and white. So in the present case the great outstanding fact is this: That, whereas the Allied sort of illegality, if such it be, has caused reparable inconvenience and financial loss, the German sort of illegality has already irreparably destroyed 200 American lives, and now threatens to destroy more. For these lives there is no redress; and to meet this threat there is no course but that of self-protection by force...
...answer to the discussion which has been prevalent, that the beneficiaries of scholarships maintained by Harvard Clubs do not sufficiently distinguish themselves as scholars in College, the Alumni Bulletin publishes some statistic dealing with the honor men of 1916. These figures show that of the 143 men who received honors at the last Commencement, 61, or nearly 43 per cent received financial aid as Freshmen. For this financial support thirteen Harvard Clubs and several separate scholarship foundations are responsible. The following is the table given the Bulletin: Men with "cum laude" 66 Scholarship holders 24 Men with distinctions...